Distance and Dial-ups: How We’ve Survived 26 Years As a Distributed Team
How do you start a company using a remote workforce — in 1993? It’s all about trust.
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Staying mentally healthy at home
Working from home can be a welcome change, but it can also be hard on the psyche. Mental health expert Nikki Lee offers insights and recommendations for those of us who may be feeling isolated, stuck, frustrated or simply bored out of our minds.
Supporting education during a pandemic
Remote learning? Budget cuts? How are our schools coping? Linda Greenberg lives at the nexus of parents, teachers and administrators.
Shape Up: Stop running in circles
The Basecamp people have just published “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters”
Digital campaigns for movies
Love movies? Me, too. And you’ve probably seen the campaigns that promote them during Oscar season. High pressure creativity. Near-instant turnaround. Coordinating teams in the U.S., Manila and Buenos Aires.
Mudslides, fax machines and philanthropy
What happens when disaster strikes your community and the local workers lose their jobs? If you’re one of my oldest friends, Ron Blitzer, you roll up your sleeves and raise $180,000 in 5 days.
Should all agencies be working from home?
One of the most successful social media content studios in the country is run by Seth Sliver from his home high in the mountains above Los Angeles. Find out why he thinks that nearly all agencies should be run virtually, and that working from home is the only thing that makes sense in a world that’s changing as fast as ours.
How do you run a 300-person team from home?
And how does that team manage to function during this crazy time? We talk. You listen.
Shape Up: Stop running in circles
The Basecamp people have just published “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters”
Online learning systems
How do you sell cloud-based learning systems on four continents while managing a remote team — all from home? We dive into online education, home schooling, coping with time differences and learning from video games.